2.6 Target state architecture

Methodically approaching your conceptual model of the future and the technologies that fulfill that future is crucial if you want to achieve or surpass your project goals.

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Introduction

Your target state architecture is a conceptual model of the future. A good target state architecture lets you accurately plan, assign resources, and streamline activities to reach your desired future state. It’s the blueprint you’ll use to harmonize operations across the organization and every team involved in delivery of your product.

To do this you need to think about components and capabilities across your IT landscape. That includes business capabilities, applications, security, data and data handling, interfaces, interaction models, reliability tools, scalability, operations, and more. Together, all of these things combine into the architecture you’ll use to deliver your solution.

Thinking about all of these different architectural dimensions may seem overwhelming, which is why we have a methodical approach to defining target state architecture.

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